Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "James Tait" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.profile Subject: JayTee tries to make a comeback Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 20:47:03 -0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 37 Message-ID: <850b41$42t1@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.172.118.110 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Oh I hate these things, but I suppose, having been a Yaroze member since my 2nd Year at Middlesex, I should make a contribution. James Tait, age 23, physical appearance irrelevent (i.e. ugly!). I graduated from Middlesex with a BSc in Applied Computing last July (22nd actually), where Peter Passmore was my tutor and I studied alongside such names as Rob Swan and Olly Read. Shame none of their talent rubbed off on me though. *8O) I'm now based in Mansfield, Notts., working for Coats-Viyella Clothing as a Systems Administrator & Developer, though over the last 3 months or so the Developer part has been essentially dropped. Now we've rolled over happily into the year 2000 I'm hoping to have a little bit of time to spare between working, playing hockey, visiting my girlfriend and her son and maintaining my Linux system. Having to teach my girlfriend's 6-year-old son how to use a PlayStation and play Crash Bandicoot 2, GTA 2 and Worms Armageddon has inspired me to get involved with the Yaroze again - I even bought myself two Dual Shock controllers to give me something new to play with. It's been so long since I did anything on the Yaroze I'm essentially starting from scratch - expect to see plenty of posts from me on scee.yaroze.beginners! My OS of choice is GNU/Linux, based on Slackware '96 but home-rolled from there, though I'm forced to use Windows NT 4.0 at work, which is where I am now. I'll be working from the ground up to develop my own set of libraries for things, though obviously I'll be searching the archives for inspiration and guidance. Ultimately I intend to make something worthwhile out of the poor effort I tried to submit on floppy disk for my final year coursework. I'd also like to do something with my website and download area, but bear with me on that! This could be the beginning of something special....